The Sarashina diary : a woman's life in eleventh-century Japan / Sugawara no Takasue no Musume ; translated, with an introduction, by Sonja Arntzen and Itō Moriyuki

Author:: Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, 1008-
Uniform Title:: Sarashina nikki. English
Published:: New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Physical Description:: xvi, 239 pages ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators:: Arntzen, Sonja, 1945- and Itō, Moriyuki, 1954-

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Translations from the Asian classics

Language Note:

Translated from the Japanese.

Contents:

Text and author -- The relationship of theme and structure -- Dreams and religious consciousness -- A child's viewpoint and layers of narration -- Text and intertext: the Sarashina diary and the Tale of Genji -- A life composed in counterpoint.

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Diaries

ISBN:

9780231167185 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0231167180 (cloth : acid-free paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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